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Facebook to Track Users Across Devices to Study Shopping Habits [More evilness]
Bloomberg
| Aug 13, 2014
| Sarah Frier
Posted on 08/13/2014 1:21:48 PM PDT by upchuck
Sorry, Bloomberg is link only:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-13/facebook-to-track-users-across-devices-to-study-shopping-habits.html
Facebook is near over the top and on the very edge with all this tracking. You been told about it.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: facebook
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posted on
08/13/2014 1:21:48 PM PDT
by
upchuck
To: upchuck
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posted on
08/13/2014 1:26:35 PM PDT
by
GOJPN
To: upchuck; onyx; JustAmy; trisham; DJ MacWoW; RedMDer; musicman; Lady Jag; STARWISE; Alamo-Girl; ...
"Facebook has been bulking up advertising services as the social networks mobile ads propel revenue and profit. While users and privacy watchdogs around the world criticize Facebooks use of personal data, the company is under pressure from advertisers to prove that their mobile promotions are effective." I pray we never have to go to advertising to fund FR.
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posted on
08/13/2014 1:26:40 PM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
To: Jim Robinson
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posted on
08/13/2014 1:27:36 PM PDT
by
RedMDer
(May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
To: upchuck
Never been to FB. But to save them the trouble, my shopping habits can be summed up in two words...
Capital Strike
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posted on
08/13/2014 1:28:23 PM PDT
by
griswold3
(I was born here in America. I will die here in a third world country. Obama succeeded.)
To: Jim Robinson; onyx; RedMDer; DJ MacWoW; JustAmy; Lady Jag; deoetdoctrinae; musicman; bd476; ...
I pray we never have to go to advertising to fund FR.**************************
Me too, Jim.
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posted on
08/13/2014 1:30:07 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Jim Robinson
Me too. It would be the death of freedom.
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posted on
08/13/2014 1:31:08 PM PDT
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: GOJPN
Facebook is evil but nothing compared to Google.
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posted on
08/13/2014 1:31:46 PM PDT
by
georgiarat
(Obama, providing incompetence since Day One!!)
To: GOJPN
Just Facebook or all Social Media? This sort of thing is becoming the norm. It’s how these companies monetize. You don’t think your credit card company tracks your buying habits and sells them?
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posted on
08/13/2014 1:32:04 PM PDT
by
Borges
To: Jim Robinson
On the other hand, perhaps a recruitment drive is in order.
If we double the number of FR readers, we are likely to double the number of FR contributors.
What if we STRONGLY encourage FReepers to ask several of their conservative FRiends to come on over and read our site?
I think FR revenue will follow suit. Especially, we need to turn on younger folks to FR, before we turn into a generationally divided group.
Perhaps some of our internally focused advertising on threads can encourage current readers to recruit new readers.
Hey, that’s my 2 cents for the day! Person to Person marketing!
Be well, Mr. Thompson!
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posted on
08/13/2014 1:32:17 PM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(The GOP-e scum enlisted Democrats to steal the Republican primary. The GOP-e can go to Hell.)
To: upchuck
I pity the suckers that made a Facebook account
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posted on
08/13/2014 1:34:40 PM PDT
by
molson209
(Blank)
To: Uncle Miltie; Jim Robinson
Whenever I share an article I think is of interest to my friends, I always use the FR link....
That way, there’s a chance they get afflicted with the addiction.
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posted on
08/13/2014 1:39:17 PM PDT
by
SZonian
(Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
To: molson209
Well then, pity me. (not really)
I made one years ago, before they started on their path of invasiveness, because my family said it would be an easy way to stay in touch and up to date...share pics, etc.
Unfortunately, that hasn’t really come to pass...so my account, though active, is relatively idle...not much they’re going to get out of me...
So don’t be so down on FReepers who may have done so years ago for entirely innocent reasons.
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posted on
08/13/2014 1:42:38 PM PDT
by
SZonian
(Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
To: Jim Robinson; upchuck
I pray we never have to go to advertising to fund FR. Amen to that.
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posted on
08/13/2014 1:43:08 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
To: Uncle Miltie
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posted on
08/13/2014 1:43:12 PM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(FREE REPUBLIC: Bring a FRiend!)
To: Borges
You dont think your credit card company tracks your buying habits and sells them?Not if you pay cash for everything and use the card for just online purchases.
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posted on
08/13/2014 1:44:30 PM PDT
by
upchuck
(It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care.)
To: upchuck
We’re being tracked by everybody these days. Facebook is just one among many.
I do have a Facebook account, & I enjoy posting articles on it that I found here on FR.
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posted on
08/13/2014 1:45:10 PM PDT
by
Twotone
(Marte Et Clypeo)
To: upchuck
Easy solution to this: erase your Facebook account and begin your own social network where none of these practices would be allowed. And, of course, forgo the billions you could make.
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posted on
08/13/2014 1:47:31 PM PDT
by
thefactor
(yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
To: Jim Robinson
I pray we never have to go to advertising to fund FR. I also hope that Jim. But remember, advertising is one thing. Tracking is a whole nuther thing, and the source of this gnashing of teeth.
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posted on
08/13/2014 1:47:50 PM PDT
by
upchuck
(It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care.)
To: Jim Robinson
Gonna keep trying to fund. Thanks for all you do
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posted on
08/13/2014 1:48:08 PM PDT
by
I_be_tc
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